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Mario Vargas Llosa

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born
March 28, 1936 in Arequipa, Peru

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Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, is the author of some of the most significant writing to come out of South America in the past fifty years. His novels include The Green House, about a brothel in a Peruvian town that brings together the innocent and the corrupt; The Feast of the Goat, a vivid re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General Rafael Trujillo’s insidious regime; and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a comedic semi-autobiographical account of an aspiring writer named Marito Varguitas, who falls in love with Julia, the divorced sister-in-law of his Uncle Lucho.

He is also a widely read and respected essayist, writing everything from newspaper opinion pieces to critical works on other writers, includ...more


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Average rating: 3.85 · 24,888 ratings · 2,527 reviews · 135 distinct works
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwr...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 3,230 ratings — published 1977 — 31 editions
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The Feast Of The Goat
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 3,619 ratings — published 2000 — 54 editions
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Travesuras de la niña mala
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 3,706 ratings — published 2006 — 58 editions
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La ciudad y los perros
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 2,161 ratings — published 1962 — 49 editions
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The War of the End of the W...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 1,407 ratings — published 1981 — 49 editions
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Pantaleón y las visitadoras
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 1,185 ratings — published 1973 — 39 editions
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Conversation in the Cathedral
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 996 ratings — published 1969 — 37 editions
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Death In The Andes
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 1,197 ratings — published 1993 — 42 editions
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The Storyteller
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 891 ratings — published 1987 — 30 editions
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In Praise of the Stepmother
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 1,079 ratings — published 1988 — 39 editions
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Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa

“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
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“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
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“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
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